The Folk-Taks of t/te Kizvai Papuans. 



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B. Sido was the first man to die. When the people at Ipisia vvould not throvv away his 

 body, he said, „You take that body, by and by you altogether dead now. Before, you no man he 

 dead. You been take body, everybody dead behind (after that)." (Gabia, Ipisia). 



C. Sido did not want to see „that skin", his body, and told the Gibu people to throw it 

 away, „That no Sido." („He shame that body, he go away.") The people in the canoe, however, did 

 not obey him hut buried the body at Uiio. Sido said „You bury him, I lite." (Amiira, Mawäta). 



D. A man named Keaburo at (iihu showed the people the footprints of Sido's spiril in the 

 ground and asked them to throw his body overboard, as he had beep told by the spirit, but they re- 

 fused to do so. (Bogéra, Ipisia). 



E. Sigåri, a Kiwai man, while spearing fish at Gibu, met Sido and was asked by him to feil 

 the people in the canoe to throw away the dead man, hut they did not do so. Sido's body was buried 

 at UÜO, (Gihuma, Mawäta), 



SIDOS SPIRIT BECOMES A MISCHIEVOUS CHARACTER (no. 28—33). 



28. Sido's spirit arrived at Wåpi, the home of Wapinogére, „the old man of Wäpi", 

 vvhose name was also Bàsimu (cf. Index). Turning into a crah he was found by Bâsimu's wife, 

 who tied up the two nippers of the crab and put it in her basket. Near by Bâsimu was cut- 

 ting down a sago tree of a kind still called Bosimu don (sago). After a while the crab escaped 

 from the basket, and Si'do's spirit, resuming its human shape, stood up in front of the woman, 



W'oraan pounding the trunk of a sago palm. 

 N:o 1. 



Woman washiug out sago powder. 



